After Yu Silian finished speaking, Mo Ziwan stepped forward and took Huang Rui's hand, "Okay!" After answering, she pulled Huang Rui out of the woodshed, "Uncle Huang, let's go and rest."
After Huang Rui was taken away by Mo Ziyuan, Yu Silian and Murong Qingyuan began to prepare for pulping.
Murong Qingyuan poured out the wood from the stone mortar, and Yu Silian boiled mountain pepper leaf juice.
"Qingyuan, after everything is poured out, go outside and bring in half a basin of water." Yu Silian put the mountain pepper leaves into the pot as she spoke, and then started to boil.
"good."
After Murong Qingyuan answered, he slowly poured out all the fine powder pounded out of the stone mortar. After finishing it, he turned around and went outside to bring in water.
"Auntie, do you need to filter it again?"
"Yes, you take a sieve and filter out the earth."
"Okay." Then he mixed the water and wood fines together, and then took the sieve next to it and fished it into the wooden basin. When the sieve was taken out, there was a lot of coarser fines inside.
He poured the fished out coarse powder into the stone mortar, and then fished it out a few more times. When no more coarse powder was fished out, he said: "Auntie, it's all filtered out."
"Okay, you put the stone forging wrapped next to the stone forging and stir it for a while." Yu Silian guided Murong Qingyuan again.
"Okay." Murong Qingyuan stretched out his body, opened the stone forge wrapped in paper, poured it into the basin and started to stir it.
"Auntie, what are you doing with stone forging?"
Yu Silian looked at the white smoke coming out of the burning pot. She stood up, took a shovel and stirred the pot. While stirring, she replied, "You can bleach the paper by adding stone forging."
"Wanwan said that this stone forging is also a kind of medicine!"
"Well, stone forging, also known as lime, has the effects of detoxifying and corroding, curing sores and stopping bleeding, and killing insects and relieving itching."
While the two were talking, Mo Ziwan and Huang Rui came to the woodshed again.
"Why don't you take a rest?" Yu Silian said looking at Huang Rui who came into the room.
"I'm not tired just for pounding. After I've rested enough, I'll pound out the larger pieces of wood from the next pot." Huang Rui said as he took out the wood from the pot and poured it into the stone mortar. The coarse powder poured into the stone mortar, "Fortunately, there is not much coarse powder." Then he continued to pound.
"I'm tired of you. Just wait until it's done this time. I'll have to pound wood again and let Father Chunlin think of something." Yu Silian knew that there was a stone mortar and hung it on the beam. The contents of the stone mortar can be pounded just by pulling it with your hands.
"If I have to rely on people to pound the wood again in the future, it doesn't matter whether the person is tired or not, but the pounding is too slow and I won't be able to make much paper." Huang Rui pounded the wood in the stone mortar again, and he could only hear the wood being pounded. The sound of breaking sounded.
Yu Silian pulled out the roots and stirred them in the pot. "Qingyuan, take your sister away. I'm here with pepper leaf juice."
"Okay." After Murong Qingyuan responded, he put down the wooden stick in his hand and pulled Mo Ziwan away.
"I'm not a three-year-old child!" Mo Ziyuan said that she was no longer a child and could not run around.
Yu Silian smiled and said, "Yes, you are not a three-year-old child, you are a four-year-old child!"
Huang Rui, who was pounding the wood, had to put down the stone hammer, and resumed pounding after he stopped laughing.
After waiting for Yu Silian to pour the juice from the pepper leaves into the wooden basin, Murong Qingyuan took Mo Ziyuan to the wooden basin and watched as the water in the wooden basin became sticky and the wood fragments were suspended in the wooden basin. .
Taking the wooden stick that Murong Qingyuan had just given, Yu Silian took it in her hand and stirred it again. After stirring evenly, she took out the stick and said, "Brother Huang, come and see if you can fish out the paper." ap.
After hearing this, Huang Rui put down the stone in his hand and came over. He looked at the white wood pulp in the basin and said, "I'll take it out first and see how it goes."
"good!"
When Yu Silian responded, Mo Ziwan took the bamboo curtain next to her and handed it to Huang Rui. After Huang Rui took it, he reached into the basin, shook it back and forth in the wooden basin a few times and then picked it up flatly. , as the bamboo curtain was lifted up, a layer of white pulp paper covered the bamboo curtain.
"I'll get a few more
Let's see if it's dry. "
By now, everyone is relieved that paper can be made even from wood blocks.
After fishing out more than ten pieces, Huang Rui put the bamboo curtain aside, pressed out the excess water on the paper, and started baking it. After the paper was half dry, he separated the paper. "It looks similar to the last time." , you should also take a look."
"I think it's pretty much the same. Wanwan, take one and show it to your godfather."
"Okay." After Mo Ziwan answered, she took the paper in her hand and ran out of the woodshed.
After Mo Ziyuan ran out, Murong Qingyuan took the bamboo curtain next to him and prepared to fish out the paper. Huang Rui squinted and said after seeing it: "The bamboo curtain is shaken twice after entering the water to shake the bamboo pulp more evenly and release the water." It needs to be held flat at all times, otherwise the paper will be of different thicknesses.”
"Yes." Murong Qingyuan remembered what Huang Rui said in his heart and reflected it on his hand. After shaking it twice, he took it out flatly.
Murong Qingyuan fished for paper, Huang Rui pounded wood, and Yu Silian didn't leave, just boiling the next pot of mountain pepper leaf juice.
After the juice was boiled, the paper that Murong Qingyuan took out was pressed to dry half, and then baked.
After a lot of work, Huang Rui pounded all the wood pieces into fine pieces. "I think I'll chop them a little bigger in the future. Anyway, they can be smashed."
Then the process of pulping, fishing, dehydration and drying was repeated.
Mo Ziyuan gave the paper to Han Shuxian again, "Godfather, I think they are almost the same. A larger piece of wood will do."
Han Shuxian placed three pieces of paper on his desk, one was made from sawdust before, and the other two were made today. He looked at the three pieces of paper again and again, and finally confirmed that they were all the same and said, "Thank you, Uncle Huang. Be careful."
"Well, Uncle Huang did it very hard."
"It seems that the most important thing is to try to break the wood into pieces."
Finally it’s time to move on to the next problem that needs to be solved.
Mo Ziyuan raised her head and looked at Han Shuxian, "Did your godfather think of a way?"
"I'll go to the blacksmith shop tomorrow and ask." Han Shuxian also thought of going to the blacksmith shop to ask for help.
"My godfather stopped by the blacksmith shop to make some very big pots so that I can cook more wood in the future."
"Okay." Not only do we need to make pots, but we also need to find someone to make a stone mortar, and make it larger so that we can pound more pots at once.
In the days that followed, Han Shuxian went to the blacksmith shop again and found a stonemason to make a stone mortar.
Stone mortar is easy to make, but wood cutting is not so easy. After visiting several iron shops in the county, there was no good solution. Unwilling to give up, Han Shuxian ran to the capital again to inquire.
Fortunately, hard work paid off, and Da Da finally found a family who came up with a good solution.
The owner of the blacksmith shop was a young man. After hearing Han Shuxian's intention, he pulled him towards his backyard and pointed to a piece of wood standing on the ground. Look at this piece of wood, I can knock it out in one go. Break into four pieces.
After the young man finished speaking, he turned around in a corner and took out an iron frame for a cross. When he put it on the ground, Han Shuxian saw clearly that the top of the cross had sharp edges.
He understood it at a glance. All he had to do was put the wood up, and then hit it down with a hammer. After all the wood was knocked down, it was successfully divided into four pieces.
Just as Han Shuxian thought, the young man put the wood on and started to knock the wood down. Soon the wood was divided into four pieces. "Will this method of mine be able to cut the wood into small pieces quickly?"
Although it was still far from the small pieces he said, Han Shuxian saw hope and said, "This is a good idea!" The conversation changed later, but what I wanted was to cut all the wood into small pieces two fingers wide. .
After hearing this, the young man did not refuse and said, "I'll think of another idea. Come back to my place in two days."
Han Shuxian said gratefully: "Thank you very much. I'm not in a hurry. Just think about it slowly. I'll come back in two days."
Two days later, when Han Shuxian went there again, the shape of the cross had been changed again, and a few more knives were added to the empty spaces of the cross. The sight of the silvery blades made Han Shuxian panic. If he made another one, Come out, I'm afraid it's going to be a mountain of knives.
Because of the extra knife, it was originally divided into four pieces, but now
It was directly cut into a dozen thin pieces, and then he took the wood strips and walked under his knife, "In this way, it can be turned into the small pieces you want."
This is already a very good method. "Please, little brother, please make a few more knives like this." After thinking for a while, he said, "Let's make ten first, of different sizes. Little brother, just watch and make them. And this one I’ll also make ten knives, and I’ll also need ten cauldrons, no matter how big they are.”
"Okay, no problem. Don't worry, sir. There is nothing bad about the things I made. Mr. Bao is satisfied. He just asked me to make things. The price is not cheap." The young man said.
Thinking that as long as he made paper, he could make money quickly, so he asked directly, "Since I said I'm going to do it, I won't lose your money. How much money will it cost to do it all?"
"Seeing that you have done a lot, I will give you a discount. I will give you one hundred taels of silver. I will give you half of the deposit first. In addition, I will tell you where to send the things when they are ready." The young man said. .
Han Shuxian took out the money, first handed the deposit to the young man, and then told him the address of Lanwan Village. Han Shuxian said, "Young man, take note of it." After writing it down, he said, "I will give you the first one after I finish it." Go to the village."
After all the preparations were made, Han Shuxian went to Li Youdi's house to talk about papermaking.
Li Youdi was a little surprised that Han Shuxian came, "Shuxian, what's the matter?"
Han Shuxian said, "I have something I want to talk to Brother Youdi about."
"Sit in the room quickly."
After Li Youdi invited Han Shuxian into the house, he made him a cup of tea himself. Since he and the Mo family opened a workshop in the village, the family has gained more income, and all the tea sets at home have been replaced with decent ones. , not only that, I also bought a box of tea.
"The tea is not good, so just drink it." Li Youdi said after placing the brewed tea in front of Han Shuxian.
"Brother Youdi, you're welcome." Han Shuxian picked up the rough tea cup in his hand and said, "After our village completes what I'm going to say next, Brother Youdi will not be short of money to buy any tea he wants to drink. "
"What's going on?" Li Youdi's heart trembled. Although he didn't know what it was about yet, just what he said made him excited.
